Charlie Donovan

Principal Economist

Charlie Donovan is Principal Economist at Impax Asset Management. He is concurrently Adjunct Professor at the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and Affiliate Professor of Practice in the Department of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Impax Sustainability Centre.

Before joining lmpax in 2022, Charlie was Professor of Practice at Imperial College London and Founding Executive Director of lmperial’s award-winning Centre for Climate Finance and Investment. In his corporate career, Charlie was Head of Structuring and Valuation for Global Power at BP plc and part of the team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. He began his career as an Energy Policy Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration.

Charlie is co-author and editor of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, now in its second edition. He holds a BA from the University of Washington, an MBA from Vanderbilt University, and gained a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) in finance from IE Business School.